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#393 Dock Menu Enhancement/Cleanup
From: Martin Häcker <mhaecker@mac.com>
Date: Sun Feb 2, 2003 6:19:46 AM US/Mountain
Hi there,
Fire's dock menu seems still kind of cluttered to me. What do you think about Interface changes like these?
In the Dock-Menu part "Accounts":
- The text seems really long. Especcially when accounts are offline only some text "(offline)" appears at the end of the account name which is very hard to spot.
I think it would be much clearer to have a checkmark in front of the text as you would see the status in one look, rather than reading the whole line first...
- I would argue for killing the submenu there and instead put a new choice "Edit accounts..." in there or leave it out completely, as it's not supposed to be used that often.
- Something I am not so confident about: Do you think that putting service Icons in there would help find the right service easier? Right now I have about 7 services listed in there and it takes me quite some time to spot the one I want to find. If this Icon could replace the name of the service a line belongs to this could also help to shorten the menu. But I fear that it would interact poorly with the checkmarks and I think those are way more important.
What do you think?
cu Martin
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From: Martin Hcker <mhaecker@mac.com>
Date: Sun Feb 2, 2003 5:47:43 PM US/Mountain
> I don't think we can put a checkmark in the dock menu.
It has to be possible as at least iTunes does it.
>> - I would argue for killing the submenu there and instead put a new
>> choice "Edit accounts..." in there or leave it out completely, as it's not
>> supposed to be used that often.
> We could do the same thing here that we do with the submenus on
> the buddies, and make the submenus show up only if you have "expanded
> dock menus" turned on. Adding the Edit Accounts menu item would be
> pretty easy to do.
While adding it to the preferences would be nice I would be opting for either killing it completely or having that "Edit accounts..." only show up if the existing "extended dock menu" pref is activated.
>> - Something I am not so confident about: Do you think that putting
>> service Icons in there would help find the right service easier? Right
>> now I have about 7 services listed in there and it takes me quite
>> some time to spot the one I want to find. If this Icon could replace
>> the name of the service a line belongs to this could also help to
>> shorten the menu. But I fear that it would interact poorly with the
>> checkmarks and I think those are way more important.
> Again, I don't know if it's possible to put icons in the dock menu.
Well this one isn't that important so this wouldn't really hurt.
cu Martin